booking clerk


noun
  1. a person who sells tickets, as for a train or plane.

  2. a person who arranges and lists passage for persons, baggage, and goods.

Origin of booking clerk

1
First recorded in 1830–40

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How to use booking clerk in a sentence

  • The booking-clerk at Banbury remembered only three gents booking by that particular train.

    The Observations of Henry | Jerome K. Jerome
  • On reaching the station she asked the booking-clerk some questions, and returned to her aunt with a cheerful countenance.

    A Laodicean | Thomas Hardy
  • So much vent did he give to his annoyance that the attention of the booking-clerk was specially attracted to him.

  • I once asked a booking-clerk for two sun spots of the Western coast, and he told me that the refreshment-room was further on.

  • Stitt led in a young man whom everybody recognized as the booking clerk from the station four miles away.

    The Dust of Conflict | David Goodger (goodger@python.org)